I received my 500 miles to my Sky Miles accoutn^

Has anybody who chose CO for their deposits received their 500 miles? My husband hasn't (but the 500 miles were deducted from his account 3-4 days ago).

I wouldn't worry too much - mine were just deposited this morning into my NWA, and members of other programs have been reporting deposits. Looks like this one is problem-free.

06APR2007 eMiles Mileage Redemption 500

Posted in my NWA account.

Nope - was just about to ask the same question.

am now at 495. got this one today from national forest foundation. while being so close temps me to join yet another thing online, I keep thinking of what a pain MyPoints can be and how I really have no time these days to try and manage multiple email accts.:


Earn 5 e-Miles® miles when you read the following offer and answer a few short questions.
Earn 20 additional miles from e-Miles when you register to become a Friend of the Forest!


I can wait for another 5 and then wait til my soon-to-be 500 posts to NWA.

I have not seem my CO mileage posted yet.

Ditto

CO miles posted just now & 265 towards next quarter credited already. This might work out a little better than expected.

not yet for me. i am still stuck at 495 :(

Ditto.

I just crossed the 500 mile barrier but did so after the end of the 1st Quarter. Guess I have to wait til th end of June for these to post to my airline account.

Looking at maybe earning 1,000 miles per year through this site

Looks like they are starting to come out with a few read the message and get 5 miles but sign up and get 75 or more mile type offers ala MyPoints.

got the same offer, aint into signing up for more spam.

BUT this one FINALLY put me at 500 today! wow that took a while. Was teased at 495 for like a week+!

Anyway, Mine are set to go to NWA, but who knows how long it takes to do this. Anyone get theirs at NWA yet>??

Current Balance: 500 miles

As a Member of e-Miles®, you earn Northwest Airlines® WorldPerks® miles — simply for responding to marketing messages tailored to your interests!

You have completed all of your current earning opportunities.

Please check often for new earning opportunities.

e-miles only deposits to frequent flyer accounts once every quarter (Those being January 1, April 1, July 1, October 1. They only deposit in 500 mile increments, too. So, your 500 miles will be deposited on July 1. Anything left over will be carried over to the next quarter.

I had 500 miles deducted from my e-miles account on 4/1 but there's nothing in my Continental account yet. How long does this redemption take to process?

EDIT: I found this on the e-miles website: "Please allow 6-8 weeks from e-Miles quarterly redemption submission for miles to post to your OnePass account."

Very slow so far this quarter. Hope it picks up pace.

You might get them sooner. My Delta emiles posted to my account on 4/6.

Same for Continental:

so did mine. Hope they count for the bonus miles. :)

like others I wasnt able to reach the 500 pt threshold until after 4/1.

Now at 525 but with 5 or 10 pts being the max to earn each week, it will take a whole yr if not more to earn the 2nd 500 miles. So once the 500 miles posts to my carrier, Im gettin away from this site ASAP

It might be wrong to assume the number of surveys & points per week is constant throughout the year.

My experience to date is varies considerably. Some weeks only 1 or 2 5 pointers, and other times I get over 100 points of surveys in the same day. That said, this quarter is much slower than last quarter for me.

It's been dead for me as well. And I still haven't seen my 500 miles post.

I'm sure they made a huge push with advertisers to get as many emails out by the end of March to make sure that a decent percentage of their subscribers passed the 500 point hurdle by the end of the quarter and thus earn their first reward (assuming that if people didn't earn an award or come close, subscribers would leave in droves). Thus, any advertiser that was even close to considering participating in E-miles probably got some attractive incentives to run early, leaving the "pipeline" of new advertisers that would run in April practically empty. I would assume/hope that the "run rate" of emails returns to normal (whatever that is) by May and will use that rate to judge whether this program is worth the time to continue participation.

at 510 waiting on NWA, I too have mixed feelings about the value of the "free" miles here.

On the one hand, it IS free so you just click thru some stuff online and it adds up, eventually supposedly non-erroredly you get 500 mile blocks when you reach those threasholds...

On the other hand, I DO experience (and this is not always a bad thing) a bit of mile-anxiety whereas I think all these things to myself as I do such promos:

-will it work?
-will it end or change before I get the promo done?
-will there be errors and if so, who do I contact and will it be aweful like when trying to recover missing miles from the EBAY Anything Points gig with companies like Sharebuilder, or will it be easy like when you contact an airline and the CSR guy does it like right then and there and you can refresh your screen and actually SEE the error corrected? or, will it be like when you are stupid enough to actually DO one of the larger MyPoints points-earning gigs and you now actually EXPECT and find yourself WAITING ON some 20 or 100 mile posting to your long-growing account only to have to dig for the fax or phone number, send in stuff you normally would throw away and still have to wait X number of weeks to get the points only to transfer them to Hilton when you reach X thousand, only to later have Hilton one day deny you ever sent anything, which now means THEY deleted YOUR account's Hilton points and you cannot retreive MyPoints records past 6 months and depsite everything you go thru, Hilton does not accept the validity of copies of faxes of transactions to and from MyPoints and that one email in your lifetime that you did NOT save that had proof of the transfer to Hilton from Mypoints and and and...

Well, you get my point.
This one is NOT as big or bad (yet) but some FREE miles are not really worth the trouble. I tend to save things and treat every promo the same--20 miles or 200 miles or 20,000, I want 'em if I signed up for 'em. But lately I have been a bit less inclined to even want to work on GETTING the 20 mile ones or even some of the 200 mile ones...Unless it's easy 123.

If it is, I will still play. So far it's not bad but it's not great. It's just one more thing to pass the time when up late cuz the baby could not sleep.

;)MM

well I got my weekly notice today, I log-on and Yep 1 opp for 5 pts. Didnt bother clicking it, somehow 5 pts has been what they have sent me the past few weeks.

I cant believe people were complaining about how My Points and E-rewards were Scams and not this site.

I'll click on every so often so as to keep my acct active till 7/1 when the 500 mile should go over to my Carrier that I signed up with. Then this site is history for me a Complete waste of my time. I am assuming and hoping they make it to 7/1

i dont think mypoints is a scam, its actually just spam that you opt to receive but get points in the process of doing so! It's just that they suck at fixing problems and have had some glitches that bug me cuz I find myself wasting time on say 30 points. I can see myself wasting time on trying to collect 10,000 miles I may be missing (where IS my NWA Valentines bonus of that amount anyway? It's been about 8 weeks now!) and yet, we here in FT seem to all value points and miles as if they are the end of the world! That's what makes us all sick in a good way though.

someone here said e-rewards was the same company as this gig.

Are others experiencing glitches? I like emiles because it's unintrusive and you get the points quickly with just a few questions. I can earn faster with mypoints and erewards, but they're also a little more work.

I don't understand what all the complaining is about. It takes less than a minute to click to the site, click through the ad, and click through the 3 questions. I got my 500 miles and my wife did too.

It costs nothing and takes less than a minute. Maybe people just had higher expectations that they would rack of thousands of miles every month or every quarter and it's obvious that it won't happen. The old bugaboo - unfulfilled expectations.

I think a big reason is that w/ MyPoints & E-Rewards there is an issue of being rewarded w/ Points or E-Reward $$$. Everytime I've done an e-mile "offer" the points have posted immediately.

Plus, how many times has an E-Rewards offer expired before you could get to it? Man, that sucks when that happens.

Interesting I hate E-rewards surveys b/c they are a lot more work. Seriously... e-miles? Has it ever taken more than 30 seconds to click and then answer 3 questions?

Earning $25 in E-rewards is much more time consuming than it was on e-miles.

Bingo! It's very simple, and I was impressed w/ the speed that the miles posted to my US account.^

Will I fly to the South Pacific in F from this? Definitely not, but it will keep some accounts active. :)

I meant that over a 6 month period, I can earn more miles with mypoints or erewards. However emiles requires the least work.

NW has no emiles activity yet. Before the first quarter cut off I was stagnant at 495.

You're right. It takes less than a minute to earn 5 miles.
Let put the value at 2 cents per mile and a minute for the whole process, incluide reading the email. So, 10 cents a minute. $6 per hour.
Great... I think I will keep my day job.

the problem could have to do with people having unfulfilled expectations or something to that tune, but I think it's this:

We here at FT have an inherent skepticism despite our continued willingness to risk again and go for the next new crazy promo deal.

Some of them work, some suck. I mean, look at NWA's Valentine's Day promo and how it is now surfacing that people are not getting the full bonus they expected. (I for one am out 7k miles from that and have been told to wait ANOTHER MONTH after the 8 weeks to post to MAYBE get some more activity on my account) (see NWA forum)

And then there's the 10k citi e-checking promo for AA miles. How many countless souls sit waiting for months on end for those miles because the company chose to outsource to an India call center? (See miles buzz forum)

I can name countless experiences I have personally had over the years that required a lot of chasing and work just to get what other people involved in the same promo said came to them "without any problems." later, it's really kind of funny to see those SAME people complaining about some glitchy promo THEY signed up for that did not post to them when they expected it and I AM THE ONE who says, "well, the miles posted to MY account ok!"

It is because of this horrid but ever present dynamic of mile-dum that we should never beat on each other here. Not that anyone in this thread has (yet) but you all know what I mean. It is because of these things that people here have complained. We are speculating about what MIGHT (and probably will) take place with a good portion of the accounts we new e-miles customers have right now.

Should it be this way? Is there always going to be the lost sector of sign ups in every promotion? Well, lemme tell ya: If I was working there doing the marketing, there would be no holes and the job would get done. Then again, work is not about getting things done. It's about meetings, email, golf and coming up with new crafty ways to delay that very process while looking like you are doing it! Ahh, maybe that's why I work from home as a consultant from time to time. oh well.

:DMM

I don't understand what you're saying. Everyone who selected NW hasn't received their miles from Q1? :confused:

A little tip I've found is that if they are offering 100 miles for buying som eoverpriced wine (or whatever), if you click on the link and go through the process of buying the stuff, you'll get the miles instantly- just for going through the shopping experience!^

Give it a go. It's worth a shot.

The absolute best thing about signing up for emiles is that you get to choose how the email is addressed, instead of selecting Mr/Ms/Dr/Etc from a drop down box. I look forward to their weekly email that begins:

Dear Your Majesty BamaVol,

:D now that makes me wanna change my name to "the mighty Marathon Man" in their emails to me...

But what I like about Kellogg's cereals is how the middle of the word, 'Kellogg' looks like a friendly British greeting...

"Ello Gov'nor!"

:D:D:D

No my reasoning is based that most if not everyone got to their 500 miles due to the miles given as a bonus for signing up.

Id love for those who already cashed out on April 1, to tell Us now that its the 27th and basically 2 months left till the next cash out if you have already gotten 1/3 of the 500 miles needed for the next cash out, or that since 4/1 you accumulated at least 165 miles! Im not looking to include anything left over from before 4/1. if not then do you really feel that you will hav ethe 500 miles needed in your acct by 6/1/ I crossed the 500 mile pt a couple of days after 4/1 and at the rate they send me opportunities to add miles it willl take me another year till I get another 500 miles.